Associate Planner

About You

You thrive in a metric-driven environment where thoughtful planning and strategic agility are key to success. Your curiosity drives you to dig into data, uncover trends, and turn insights into clear, actionable strategies. With a strong sense of ownership, you balance big-picture thinking with a sharp eye for detail, ensuring inventory and sales plans align with business goals. A collaborative communicator, you partner seamlessly across teams to anticipate needs, solve problems, and optimize performance.

Position Summary

As Associate Planner, you are responsible for supporting the development and execution of product assortments to maximize sales and profitability. Key tasks include analyzing historical data to forecast demand, assisting in range planning, managing inventory levels, optimizing product mix across channels, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with luxury brand standards.

Essential Functions

• Balance inventory by channel to maximize sell-through and profitability.
• Monitor inventory flow, set stock levels for efficient replenishment, and identify risks and opportunities to avoid stockouts or excessive inventory.
• Partner with merchandising, visual merchandising, and marketing teams to align product availability with marketing activities to ensure product presentation.
• Prepare and update weekly/seasonal performance reports on key metrics to support strategic decision-making.
• Manage OTBs for multiple accounts to accurately project sales, receipts, and inventory levels to drive multiple accounts and points of distribution.
• Identify sales order recommendations on a weekly/monthly basis based on selling history.
• Parter with the wholesale brand management to update selling and inventory data.
• Upload data into multiple databases on a weekly/monthly basis.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree.
• 2-4 years of experience in planning, buying, or allocation, preferably within a luxury brand or large specialty retailer.
• Proficiency in planning and reporting software.
• Proven ability to synthesize large datasets to develop actionable sales plans and replenishment forecasts.
• High attention to detail and accuracy when managing high-values inventory.
• Ability to present data-driven recommendations effectively to cross-functional partners and senior leadership.

Core Competencies  

To thrive and grow with our company, you must possess and continue to develop the following competencies: 

• Customer Focus: Ensuring that the internal and external customer’s perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ needs; promoting and operationalizing customer service as a value. 
• Driving for Results: Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress towards goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement. 
• Building Trusting Relationships: Using appropriate interpersonal styles to establish relationships with customers and internal partners; interacting with others in a way that promotes openness and trust and gives them confidence in one’s intentions. 
• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make change successful. 
• Growth Orientation: Harnessing technical expertise, continuous learning, and commitment to improvement to optimize processes, address challenges, and achieve impactful results. 

Equal Employment Opportunities

LAGOS is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, or citizenship. We are committed to a diverse workforce. We value all employees’ talents and support an environment that is inclusive and respectful.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not intended to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.